Sculpture Quotes

• Where the material ends, art begins.

  Etienne Hajdu

  Art, Ends, Materials

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• You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

  William Shatner

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• Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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• Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Block, Inspiration

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• Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

  Henry Moore

  Helping Others, People, World

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Spiritual, Art, Memories

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

  James Howell

  Art, Shapes, Rough

  James Howell (1713). “Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. Divided into four books, Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.206

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• All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Fashion, Art, Past

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• Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

  Constantin Brancusi

  Photograph, I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.

  Conor Oberst

  Central Park, Forever, Looks

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• Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Ideas, Space, Born

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Heaven, Earth

  "Vita di Benvenuto Cellini" by G. P. Carpani, vol. 3, p. 199, 1821.

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• Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

  Chuck Close

  Real, Space, Walks

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• A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Shapes, Obsessed

  "Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation".

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• Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Teaching

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• The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Lying, Block

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.82

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• Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

  Alexander Pope

  Grew, Marble, Warm

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.62

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• Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Rocks, Stones

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.78

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• As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Light, Play, Shadow

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Poetry, Painting, Moments

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.149

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• In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Attitude, Wall

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• I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Art, Drawing, Eight

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• A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

  William C. Bryant

  Grows, Marble, Sculptors

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